GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 1997

SESSION LAW 1998-77
HOUSE BILL 1309

AN ACT TO ALLOW BANNER ELK TO VOLUNTARILY ANNEX CERTAIN PROPERTY LOCATED WITHIN ITS EXTRATERRITORIAL PLANNING JURISDICTION EVEN THOUGH IT IS CLOSER TO THE VILLAGE OF SUGAR MOUNTAIN.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 160A-58.1(b)(2) does not apply to the Town of Banner Elk when the area proposed for annexation is closer to the Village of Sugar Mountain if the area proposed for annexation is within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the Town of Banner Elk, as said extraterritorial jurisdiction exists on the date this act became law, under Article 19 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes.
Section 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 10th day of August, 1998.
s/	Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

s/	Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives